Warri - A group under the aegis of Delta Youth Network (DYN) has vowed to resist any individual or group of individuals bent on disrupting the prevailing peace in Delta State, calling on the Niger Delta Youth Movement (NDYM), Delta State Chapter to leave the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC) alone to perform its duties.
Delta Youth Network was reacting in a statement in the Vanguard of Tuesday 7th, October 2008, credited to the Niger Delta Youth Movement (NDYM), giving a 14-day ultimatum to DESOPADEC to make available its financial statement from January 2007 to June 2008 or they would institute legal action against the commission.
The statement signed by Comrade Emmanuel Akporonor, Chairman, Preye Aguts, Secretary Comrade Kingsley Oberuruaria, Vice- Chairman and Comrade Tosan Edema P.R.O, DYN, said though they were not holding brief for DESOPADEC but that as stakeholders in Delta State project, they have to call the so called leaders of the NDYM to order.
The statement condemned in the strongest term the publication in its entirely and therefore declared that NDYM has no moral background and justification whatsoever to issue such an ultimatum against a commission that was meeting the yearnings and aspirations of the oil producing communities in particular and Deltans in general.
It further noted that the signatories to the purported publication, Stephen Youyah and Godspower Odenema were unserious fellows who parade themselves as youths even when they were over 60 years old, saying that it was shameful to still call themselves youths at that age.
According to the statement, “Having constituted themselves as nuisance in Port -Harcourt, they intend to constitute the same nuisance in Delta State in order to disturb the hard earned peace our Governor, His Excellency, Dr Emmanuel Ewetan Uduaghan has been able to achieve and sustain being one of his three points agenda. The so-called Niger-Delta Youth Movement, Delta State Chapter wants to distrupt the development activities of the Delta State Government and the commission”.
DYN observed that DESOPADEC had been empowering Delta Youths through employment and micro –credit loans for small and medium scale entrepreneurship as well as empowering the physically challenged people in the society and therefore does not deserve to be distracted by self-serving individuals.
While challenging NDYM to go and monitor the activities of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), it alleged that the group was after the DESOPADEC because the commission failed to acced to their request to meet them.
“We warn that this self-styled youth leaders of the so called Niger Delta Youth Movement, Delta State Chapter should not disturb the peace and development of our Delta State. We advise the state government, the DESOPADEC and general public not to take them serious “, it concluded.
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